Antron McCray

Antron McCray (1974-) was an African-American man from Harlem, New York City one of the five juveniles wrongly convicted of beating and raping Trisha Meili in the 1990 Central Park jogger case.

Biography
Antron McCray was born in Harlem, New York City, the son of Bobby and Linda McCray, and he wanted to become a baseball player after high school. On 20 April 1989, McCray was arrested by the NYPD at his family's apartment as a suspect in the Central Park jogger case, as he had hung out with his friends at Central Park the night before, when Trisha Meili was beaten and raped. He was coerced by the police into making false statements about his and others' roles in the attack, and the NYPD did the same with other children, leading to five of them being charged with assault and rape. McCray's family recruited lawyer Mickey Joseph, who delivered a very convincing defense, but McCray's father inadvertently sabotaged the defense's case when he assured the jury that his son's word could be trusted, which the prosecution used to prove the coerced statement as well. McCray and the others were sentenced to 5-10 years in a youth detention facility, but the case was vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed his role in the rape, and McCray was awarded $7.1 million.